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backing up a Windoz system.



On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:44:39 -0400
Bob Gorman <bob at rsi.com> wrote:

> At 09:45 AM 7/18/2004, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >Every night I back up my wife's Windows system by mounting it and
> >then rsync it to one of my drives. However, I continuously get the
> >"too many open files" message in the log.
> 
> As someone mentioned you could use rsync from the MS-Windows side.
> 
> I currently use rsync under Cygwin under MS-Windows to do something
> similar.
> 
> You could also get the MS-Windows Services for Unix and then
> export/mount the file system with NFS. The pusher man had free
> downloads recently.
Under cygwin, can you schedule tasks?

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